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Journalist. Staff writer at Labor Notes. Columnist at In These Times magazine. Solidarity! Contact: lfelizleon@gmail.com. Substack:
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Here’s a gift like NYT’s article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Here’s a gift like NYT’s article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@jamellebouie.net has a great piece in NYT about Trump’s war of attrition. I made similar argument in @inthesetimes.com in February. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
@jamellebouie.net has a great piece in NYT about Trump’s war of attrition. I made similar argument in @inthesetimes.com in February. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
A day of reckoning is coming. These are Border Patrol agents putting a Latino restaurant worker in Charlotte in a headlock.
📸Ryan Murphy/Getty Images
📸Ryan Murphy/Getty Images
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A day of reckoning is coming. These are Border Patrol agents putting a Latino restaurant worker in Charlotte in a headlock.
📸Ryan Murphy/Getty Images
📸Ryan Murphy/Getty Images
With an emboldened Trump in the White House for a second term, the ground has shifted dramatically for unions. What tactics and strategies can help organize more new members and best survive an all-out assault on labor and other rights?
Register now! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Register now! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
With an emboldened Trump in the White House for a second term, the ground has shifted dramatically for unions. What tactics and strategies can help organize more new members and best survive an all-out assault on labor and other rights?
Register now! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Register now! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Reporters have been milling about for two hours. But now Mamdani supporters have arrived, including yellow cabbies who are all smiles and fist bumps.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Reporters have been milling about for two hours. But now Mamdani supporters have arrived, including yellow cabbies who are all smiles and fist bumps.
I’ll be covering tonight’s big news. Follow for updates.
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’ll be covering tonight’s big news. Follow for updates.
As the clock runs out before Election Day, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani canvassed night-shift taxi drivers at LaGuardia Airport and nurses at Elmhurst Hospital. Will NYC’s working class carry him to victory ?
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
As the clock runs out before Election Day, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani canvassed night-shift taxi drivers at LaGuardia Airport and nurses at Elmhurst Hospital. Will NYC’s working class carry him to victory ?
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani is canvassing across working-class Queens tonight. An airport worker stops him, so he can say hi to his family.#ZohranOnTheNightShift
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Zohran Mamdani is canvassing across working-class Queens tonight. An airport worker stops him, so he can say hi to his family.#ZohranOnTheNightShift
New: Pull up. We’re building a movement. Solidarity is what unions are all about. Here are a few reasons why it’s a great idea to bring your union identity—and your union—to the struggle. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New: Pull up. We’re building a movement. Solidarity is what unions are all about. Here are a few reasons why it’s a great idea to bring your union identity—and your union—to the struggle. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
News: News: Volkswagen Workers in Chattanooga to Vote on Strike Authorization
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
News: News: Volkswagen Workers in Chattanooga to Vote on Strike Authorization
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Here’s my second favorite photo from the No Kings march. As someone guilty of rhetorical excess, the slogan on this handmade sign may not launch the general strike, but it’s a winner for an audience of one.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Here’s my second favorite photo from the No Kings march. As someone guilty of rhetorical excess, the slogan on this handmade sign may not launch the general strike, but it’s a winner for an audience of one.
This might rank as my favorite picture of the No Kings march on Oct. 18 in NYC. It has a protest sign with a rhetorical turn of phrase. It has a lively unposed quality to it.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This might rank as my favorite picture of the No Kings march on Oct. 18 in NYC. It has a protest sign with a rhetorical turn of phrase. It has a lively unposed quality to it.
Unions need to do more to integrate into these mass protests. Today was a good start. But better coordination is necessary.
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Unions need to do more to integrate into these mass protests. Today was a good start. But better coordination is necessary.
Want to interview union members participating in the No Kings protests in the cities below ? Hit me up.
October 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Want to interview union members participating in the No Kings protests in the cities below ? Hit me up.
Solidarity between workers is the lifeblood of a fighting labor movement. The workplace throws us together, regardless of culture, race, gender, and language, and from that arbitrary chaos, we forge genuine bonds.
October 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Solidarity between workers is the lifeblood of a fighting labor movement. The workplace throws us together, regardless of culture, race, gender, and language, and from that arbitrary chaos, we forge genuine bonds.
With stagnant growth in the major economies, war becomes a key investment. Denmark will buy 16 F-35 jets from the U.S. for $4.5 billion. The country is bending to Trump’s pressure campaign to seize Greenland.
October 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
With stagnant growth in the major economies, war becomes a key investment. Denmark will buy 16 F-35 jets from the U.S. for $4.5 billion. The country is bending to Trump’s pressure campaign to seize Greenland.
Can’t wait to May 2028? To build a strong coalition from the bottom up, consider organizing a Fightback School, a new effort Labor Notes is helping support around the country. labornotes.org/content/figh...
October 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Can’t wait to May 2028? To build a strong coalition from the bottom up, consider organizing a Fightback School, a new effort Labor Notes is helping support around the country. labornotes.org/content/figh...
Agreeing to a May 1 contract deadline season means you and your co-workers are joining the fight for each other and workers everywhere. Will you take the leap into action?
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Agreeing to a May 1 contract deadline season means you and your co-workers are joining the fight for each other and workers everywhere. Will you take the leap into action?
On May2028.org, you can find:
* Practical resources, like sample resolutions and articles
* Talking points on why lining up contracts makes sense
* Steps you can take right now whether you’re a union member or officer, or even if you’re not currently in a union!
* Practical resources, like sample resolutions and articles
* Talking points on why lining up contracts makes sense
* Steps you can take right now whether you’re a union member or officer, or even if you’re not currently in a union!
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
On May2028.org, you can find:
* Practical resources, like sample resolutions and articles
* Talking points on why lining up contracts makes sense
* Steps you can take right now whether you’re a union member or officer, or even if you’re not currently in a union!
* Practical resources, like sample resolutions and articles
* Talking points on why lining up contracts makes sense
* Steps you can take right now whether you’re a union member or officer, or even if you’re not currently in a union!
Breaking: Labor Notes has put together a new resource to help you organize with rank-and-file members in your local to build toward a nationwide show of power & a season of escalating labor action that could harness the momentum from May 2028 to spin a whirlwind of class struggle across the country.
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Breaking: Labor Notes has put together a new resource to help you organize with rank-and-file members in your local to build toward a nationwide show of power & a season of escalating labor action that could harness the momentum from May 2028 to spin a whirlwind of class struggle across the country.
Trump vs. the building trades
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trump vs. the building trades
